Republicans About To Lose Healthcare Vote – AGAIN (VIDEO)

It looks like President Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues in Congress are going to come up short yet again on votes to pass their Obamacare replacement bill. The White House was optimistic that the House could pass a revamped version of the failed healthcare measure this Wednesday, but now it seems like those plans are close to being thrown out the window.

For one thing, the things that the President and his White House staff are saying aren’t reflecting the reality of the bill’s language. Trump has repeatedly stated publicly that the Obamacare protection for pre-existing conditions should remain:

“I want it to be good for sick people. It’s not in its final form right now….”It will be every bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.”

And yet, the current language of the bill would allow states to opt out of that particular clause.

Despite Vice President Mike Pence’s efforts to whip votes in the House, once again it looks like moderate House Republicans are not on board with the new plan. Some GOP House members are trying to promise the moderates that the Senate will make many of the changes they want, if they’d just pass the bill as it is now. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) tried to placate the moderates by saying:

“You remind them there is a United States Senate, and it will change things. What we send over there isn’t going over there on stone tablets…”

Rep. Mark Amodei, a moderate Republican from Nevada, isn’t buying that:

“Seriously, you want me to go back and tell the people in my fourth of Nevada ‘the Senate will make it better?’ What the hell?”

The problem for the White House and GOP leadership is that balance between the conservative Freedom Caucus and the moderates. If they change the bill to please one side, they risk losing all the votes on the other side.

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